What the Anointing of the Sick Is and Isn'tCRISIS MAGAZINE - November 29, 2016 ... mind or spirit" to receive the sacrament. I will argue that both priests were wrong in their practices, and that this is the case whether one uses the relevant prescriptions of the pre-Vatican II Code of Canon Law from 1917 or the post-Vatican II Code of Canon Law from 1983. In arguing this way, I will also provide reasons why the present rite of Anointing of the Sick, including the name of the sacrament, should not be considered something "totally different" from Extreme Unction. A Sacrament ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CrisisMagazine/~3/8-zMctusr4A/anointing-sick-isnt

Pastoral LetterMARY AND JOSEPH'S GEM - November 27, 2016 Our Bishop has written a Pastoral Letter that has been read this weekend My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, As we open a New Year in the life of the Church, on this First Sunday of Advent, there are a number of matters that I wish to bring to your attention, briefly, in this short letter. I am very pleased to say that real progress is being made in finalising the plan for the Diocese. The "proposal document" published in June of this year brought a ...http://mariesgem.blogspot.com/2016/11/pastoral-letter_27.html

Ministry of Parish Catechist and Permanent Deacon to Be Introduced in the Diocese of Ardagh and ClonmacnoisCLERICAL WHISPERS - November 8, 2016 On Sunday 6 November, Bishop Francis Duffy, Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnois published a pastoral letter to all Catholics of the Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnois, in which he outlined plans for the introduction of two new ministries in the diocese – Parish Catechist and Permanent Deacon. Bishop Duffy said, "It is in this context of greater participation by the laity in the running of the diocese that I write this pastoral letter. By virtue of ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2016/11/ministry-of-parish-catechist-and.html

China: "Clandestine" Bishop Ordained Without Pope's ConsentCLERICAL WHISPERS - October 11, 2016 The name of the Chinese priest who was ordained bishop of the diocese of Zhengding in Hebdei province in September, is Dong Guan Hua. He was ordained by a mentally unstable elderly bishop, without the consent of the Pope and the Holy See. The ordination was his own premeditated choice. He was not forced into it by government bodies overseeing the Church: Fr. Dong belongs to what is known as the "clandestine" Church, a section of the Catholic Church that rejects the ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2016/10/china-clandestine-bishop-ordained.html

Allowing the Unworthy Reception of Our Eucharistic LordCRISIS MAGAZINE - September 23, 2016 ... growing." It's as if the "proud" and "strong" are still allowed their elite spiritual athletics, while the "humble" are finally nourished by their formerly frigid, derelict Mother Church. Many have strongly lamented the Pope's letter and its ramifications for orthodoxy and unity and reiterated the legitimacy and necessity of opposing its "permission" for grave sins. "The Eucharist, of course, is the greatest treasure that Christ gave the Church; it must be safeguarded, and we ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CrisisMagazine/~3/C6CYy6x3aFE/unworthy-reception-eucharistic-lord

Pope Says Divorced and Remarried Catholics Can in Some Cases Receive Holy CommunionCLERICAL WHISPERS - September 13, 2016 ... "brother and sister" and without getting an annulment, Pope Francis himself has confirmed. In a leaked letter to Argentine bishops Pope Francis gave his own interpretation for the first time of Amoris Laetitia, his exhortation that followed the recent synods on the family dominated by controversy over the Church's strict rules on divorced and remarried Catholics. Many believe the rules excluding such couples from communion, even where they were the innocent party in a marriage ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2016/09/pope-says-divorced-and-remarried.html

'Gobsmacked' to Learn My Father Was a PriestCLERICAL WHISPERS - September 12, 2016 ... yourselves... do not tell your business to anyone..." The letter, its colour faded over the years, runs on with other details, imparted in a slightly peculiar mix of colloquialisms and telegraphese. There is reference to "a station wagon" being used to transport the child, and a warning: "Do not tell of the child's mother." That child now sits in the armchair of a hotel, unfolding and refolding letters and documents from a pile. Now a grown woman, she knows all this ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2016/09/gobsmacked-to-learn-my-father-was-priest.html

Pope: 'No Other Interpretation' of Amoris Laetitia Than Allowing Communion for Divorced and RemarriedCLERICAL WHISPERS - September 11, 2016 In a letter reportedly leaked by a priest in Argentina, Pope Francis writes that there is "no other interpretation" of Amoris Laetitia other than one admitting divorced and remarried Catholics to Holy Communion in some cases. The letter, dated September 5, comes in response to a confidential document by the bishops of the Buenos Aires pastoral region to priests instructing them on the application of the Pope's controversial ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2016/09/pope-no-other-interpretation-of-amoris.html